Top 100 L'ron Hubbard Quotes
#1. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
#2. I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.
Werner Erhard
#3. I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones
#4. The one by L. Ron Hubbard ... I'm not in favor of his religion by any means, but he wrote a book called Battlefield Earth that was a very fun science fiction book.
Mitt Romney
#5. I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
John Travolta
#6. Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.
Alex Gibney
#7. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
L. Ron Hubbard
#8. Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.
L. Ron Hubbard
#9. Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.
L. Ron Hubbard
#10. The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
L. Ron Hubbard
#11. It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated.
L. Ron Hubbard
#12. Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.
L. Ron Hubbard
#13. It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.
L. Ron Hubbard
#14. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
L. Ron Hubbard
#15. Force yourself to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. A being causes his own feelings. Splurge on it!
L. Ron Hubbard
#16. There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.
L. Ron Hubbard
#17. Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules ... data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous ...
L. Ron Hubbard
#21. As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
L. Ron Hubbard
#22. A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard
#23. Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
L. Ron Hubbard
#24. The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
L. Ron Hubbard
#25. Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.
L. Ron Hubbard
#26. A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
L. Ron Hubbard
#28. One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
L. Ron Hubbard
#29. You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
L. Ron Hubbard
#30. Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard
#31. Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.
L. Ron Hubbard
#33. Zzt motioned with the blaster barrel. 'Why don't you just walk out of here and have a nice crap.
L. Ron Hubbard
#34. They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
L. Ron Hubbard
#35. It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
L. Ron Hubbard
#36. Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.
L. Ron Hubbard
#37. The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.
L. Ron Hubbard
#38. All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
L. Ron Hubbard
#39. Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.
L. Ron Hubbard
#40. Bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.
L. Ron Hubbard
#41. Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.
L. Ron Hubbard
#42. The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
L. Ron Hubbard
#43. The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
L. Ron Hubbard
#44. A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
L. Ron Hubbard
#46. Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
L. Ron Hubbard
#49. The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
L. Ron Hubbard
#50. True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one - and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
L. Ron Hubbard
#51. A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
L. Ron Hubbard
#52. Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
L. Ron Hubbard
#53. The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.
L. Ron Hubbard
#55. The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.
L. Ron Hubbard
#56. Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent ... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.
L. Ron Hubbard
#57. The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.
L. Ron Hubbard
#58. Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you
L. Ron Hubbard
#59. All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
L. Ron Hubbard
#60. When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
L. Ron Hubbard
#61. As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
L. Ron Hubbard
#62. In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
L. Ron Hubbard
#63. The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
L. Ron Hubbard
#66. Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
L. Ron Hubbard
#67. There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
L. Ron Hubbard
#68. Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
L. Ron Hubbard
#70. An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.
L. Ron Hubbard
#71. It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection ... a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
L. Ron Hubbard
#72. What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.
L. Ron Hubbard
#73. Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.
L. Ron Hubbard
#74. There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.
L. Ron Hubbard
#75. The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
L. Ron Hubbard
#76. Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.
L. Ron Hubbard
#77. Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.
L. Ron Hubbard
#78. Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
L. Ron Hubbard
#80. God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
L. Ron Hubbard
#81. Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
L. Ron Hubbard
#82. Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale.
L. Ron Hubbard
#83. Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.
L. Ron Hubbard
#84. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ
L. Ron Hubbard
#85. Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.
L. Ron Hubbard
#86. People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
L. Ron Hubbard
#87. In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
L. Ron Hubbard
#88. The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!
L. Ron Hubbard
#89. Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.
L. Ron Hubbard
#90. What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.
L. Ron Hubbard
#91. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.
L. Ron Hubbard
#92. The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
L. Ron Hubbard
#95. Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
L. Ron Hubbard
#96. You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
L. Ron Hubbard
#98. Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.
L. Ron Hubbard
#99. I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude ... Adventure is my guidon.
L. Ron Hubbard
#100. Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
L. Ron Hubbard
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